I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
HERMANN HESSEYou know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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The river is everywhere.
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The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God’s name is Abraxas.
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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